Social Roots Quotes

Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community.

I'm so connected to the community that I was lucky enough to be born into.

I have a friend whose theory is that you're from wherever you went to high school. I think that's mostly true.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.

I came from a big family... a big family of Southerners.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.

To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.

What do we know to be true about gang violence? We know we will fail if we fixate on the symptoms and not address what undergirds it.

I think it's helped me that I've always been very grounded, very down to earth. Lots of my friends are people I've known from school, and when I'm away from football, they're the ones who I knock about with.

What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

People need their history like they need air and food.

I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here.

You can take the girl out of the estate, but you can't take the estate out of the girl.

I've got a friend who's a builder, a friend in marketing, a friend who does furniture removals... It's good to stay grounded like that.

Cause I'm still hood, Hollywood couldn't change me.

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.

Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda.

I had a very traditional upbringing. Family has always been really important to me.